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E-Book | Pub: 06 Nov 2009£20.00
The Search for Salvation is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Milddle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in...
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Sep 2013£4.99Steven Dunbar gets the news that an old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Medicins Sans Frontieres, has died in an accident while attending a scientific meeting in Prague. She and her team have been working to eradicate polio in the border region between...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 May 2022£4.99
A remarkable story of adventure, romance and buried treasure. A small inheritance and a letter from his grandfather mark the beginnings of a journey that leads Peter Angus Gillies from his mundane job in Canada to Ardnish, the land of his forebears,...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£4.99July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani – once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King – mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the...
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Feb 2012£4.99It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley – dynamic adventurer...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
The Shadow of the Sycamores traces the fortunes of the Rae family, from Henry Rae’s birth in 1871, when his drunken father, a blacksmith, forgets the name chosen for him, to his old age in the 1940s. We follow Henry’s story as he leaves...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012£9.99The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navy’s most dramatic effect on Scotland,...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2016£0.99
It’s 1989, and Jim Daley is now a fully-fledged detective constable, working in the heart of Glasgow. When ruthless gangster James Machie’s accountant, known as the Magician, is found stabbed to death in a multi-storey car park it’s clear all...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jul 2015£5.99‘Sixty Degrees North is a story that we tell, both to ourselves and to others. It is a story about where – and perhaps also who – we are.’ The sixtieth parallel marks a kind of borderland. It wraps itself around the lower...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£4.99At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe...
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£9.99Discover the technology that may take humanity to the stars. In May 2018 NASA called a press conference to announce the successful test-run of their tiny nuclear reactor KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology). This revolutionary...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£6.99The book that fans of the Skids and Big Country had been waiting for, this is a critical perspective not only of Stuart Adamson’s music and its wider cultural influences, but also the excesses of fame and how the music business really works. It...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Jun 2013£5.99Britain’s first flying machine was trailed in Perthshire in 1907 and ever since – whether at war or in peacetime – Scotland has been in the frontline of British military aviation. In Tartan Air Force Deborah Lake investigates...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
The tenement has its being, its almost independent being, in a small Scottish town. Built of grey granite, more than a century ago, it stands four-square in space and time, the one fixed point in the febrile lives of the transient human beings whom...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£4.99‘While the army of the Goths makes war, the Romans may live in peace.’ AD 468. With the last Roman emperor of the West deposed, the Empire is in ruins – a plaything for the barbarian armies that rampage across it. This...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Sep 2011£7.99
Dixie Deans is a true Celtic legend. Between 1971 and 1976, he scored 132 goals in 184 games and was part of the great Celtic team that swept to nine consecutive Scottish league titles and dominated a golden era of the national game. Dixie...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99June 1940. German troops pour across France. As the Nazi invasion rolls towards Paris, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In the French capital an individual code named ‘Roland’ has...
